"On the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but - which means that we must include all the doubts, the caveats, the ifs, ands, and buts. On the other hand, we are not just scientists but human beings as well. And like most people we’d like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climatic change. To do that we need to get some broad-based support, to capture the public’s imagination. That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have. This ‘double ethical bind’ we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. I hope that means being both.”

"Nobody is interested in solutions if they don’t think there’s a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it appropriate to have an overstatement of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate to opening up th audience to listen...” Al Gore in an May 2006 Interview with Grist Magazine.

”...humility in face of Nature’s marvels seems more appropriate than arrogant assertions that we can forecast and even control a climate ruled by the sun and the stars.”

In the prologue to his 1968 book “The Population Bomb”, Paul Ehrlich predicted famine and disaster on a scale unprecedented in world history. “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate...” Also see WSJ article on more of his doom and gloom predictions WSJ “We’re Doomed Again”

"No matter if the science is all phony, there are collateral environmental benefits...climate change provides the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world” Christine Stewart, Canadian Environmental Minister, Calgary Herald, 14, December, 1998

"Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system”
Nigel Calder, a former editor of New Scientist, told the UK Telegraph

"Isn’t it the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?” Maurice Strong, Head of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio De Janeiro and advisor to Al Gore on An Inconvenient Truth

"I think it is mainly like little kids locking themselves in dark closets to see how much they can scare each other and themselves” MIT’s Richard Lindzen debating PBS’s Bill Nye and TWC’s Heidi Cullen on Larry King Live January 31, 2007